Tone And Mood in Literature

When writing, authors use tools called Mood and Tone to convey ideas and create feelings in their readers. This helps to make the story more interesting. You will be able to identify the tone and mood of a text and analyze how the tone affects the mood. Authors use things like word choice (shades of meaning/ word connotations) , style, and details to convey their tone and create a mood, or feelings, in the reader.

Tone and Mood Introductory Video Spotlight identifying specific word choice helps determine mood. Identify that setting, plot, tone, mood, character, conflict, will ALL be critical to determining the overall message and THEME of the text.

Mood Charades Nervous, frustrated, excited, confused,

What is Mood? The mood of a text is how the reader feels after reading. Mood is the emotions that you (the reader) feel while reading. The details & words that the author uses can help create mood.

Examples in Text During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed How do we know? Specific Word Choice: Words like "warm, excited, glittered, bright” are used by the author.

Examples in Text During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed How do we know? Setting affects Mood

Examples in Text Plot affects Mood During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed How do we know? Words like "warm, excited, glittered” are used by the author. Plot affects Mood

Examples in Text During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed How would the mood change if the author would have said, “We would make fun of each other about our terrible voices…”? Discuss how the word(s)’ connotations impact mood.

Examples in Text How do we know? After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up. Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken… How do we know? Specific Word Choice: “long, cold, sigh, brittle, lonely“

Examples in Text How do we know? After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up. Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken… How do we know? Setting affects Mood

Examples in Text How do we know? After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up. Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken… How do we know? What figurative language can you identify in the passage? How does it impact the mood of the text?

Figurative Language impacts the Mood of the story. Examples in Text After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up. Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken… How do we know? What figurative language can you identify in the passage? How does it impact the mood of the text? By personifying the tree, we feel sorry for it. We feel sympathetic and perhaps guilty that we used it up and threw it away. Figurative Language impacts the Mood of the story.